mnfireman

Correct. 79 MPH exit velo, .180 xBA and hit Duran's glove squarely.

MLB official scorers are a ****ing joke!!

It is a lot like watching the Twins play, 4 hits yesterday, 2 hits today, failing with RISP and 0 or 1 out, miscues on the bases and in the field, etc...

If the team can PH Larnach for McCusker, and then have Keirsey PR for Larnach, in a "meaningless" game, then Buxton should have been available to either PR for Vazquez or PH for Outman with a chance to go ahead in the 10th, might have even made a competitive throw to HP on the GW SF...

Baldelli writes out the line-up card, not Buxton....

567 PA was the next bonus. I would hope a professional athlete would never say he did not want to play...

Forgot he also missed 14 games to ribcage injury....40-30 almost certainly would have been reached plus 100 runs scored and probably 100 RBI also.

Getaway day line-up... Martin, Jeffers, Lewis, Clemens, Lee, McCusker, Fitzy, Vazquez, Outman.... What bonus's did Buxton have coming up that Pohlad benched him?

Detroit and Cleveland in; Houston out. Guess they were the biggest collapse...

Abel first 10 MLB games - 2-4 6.23 ERA (5.12 FIP), 10/8 GM/GS, 39 IP, 39/16 K/BB, 8 HR, 2 QS Ober first 10 MLB games - 1-1 5.19 ERA (5.36 FIP), 10/10 GM/GS, 43.1 IP, 45/13 K/BB, 11 HR, 0 QS Abel is 2 years younger than Ober was during his rookie season Pretty even starts to their respective careers, let's hope Abel improves as much as Ober did (or more).

Roster health for the play-offs. As stated earlier, 1 loss this weekend by Philadelphia or 1 win by Milwaukee and Milwaukee clinches the #1 seed. The Dodgers can not overtake either team for the #2 seed.

Kinda hope Detroit figures it out this weekend and Houston gets swept, but Detroit plays Boston and Houston plays LAA. And we know which teams MLB would rather have....

The article is Opening Day roster - there will be no Culpepper, Jenkins, Emma or Gonzales for at least a few weeks to manage team control. Keaschall did not get brought up until April 18 and that took an injury to Castro to make it happen. I also do not see any FA signings on the horizon based on the looming lockout in '27, though some 1 year contracts for lower-level MLB players could happen. I would like to see the team keep all 3 of Lopez, Ryan, and Ober because it's too early to tell what the team's coaches/system can get out of Abel and Bradley and because it doesn't look like Matthews or Festa are MLB SP, time to move them to the BP like the team did with Jax, Duran. and Varland, amongst others. Rotation (5): Lopez, Ryan & Ober. 2 of SWR, Abel, Bradley, Matthews and Festa. Bullpen (8): 3 of SWR, Abel, Bradley, Matthews and Festa. 5 of Fundeburk, Topa, Sands, Tonkin, Lawyerson, Ohl, Raya, Prielipp, Morris and any other MiLB pitcher I may have missed. Catchers (2): Jeffers & Pereda Infielders (6): Keaschall, Lewis, Lee, Clemens, Julien, Fitzgerald Outfielders (5): Buxton, Martin, Wallner, Roden, Larnach Pereda over Gasper for back up C, I can't imagine any metric would suggest Gasper is better, and he missed too many sweepers and pitches in the dirt. Wallner should be given a 1B glove the minute he starts his off-season rehab work - it's the only way he sticks with the club given the mass importation of OF coming over the next 2 seasons. Larnach - see Wallner, but about 2 weeks earlier as he is not currently injured. McCusker - see Wallner & Larnach. The team needs a RH bat with power potential. Julien is making a push to be a part of this team next year, but his skill set is redundant and very replaceable with internal options, though it looks like I had a hard time finding one. The position players pool does not inspire a lot confidence, but promotions of the top prospects sometime around 2 or 3 weeks into the season should pay off going forward.

Love the game Buxton had AND the season we finally got from him. Am I wrong for wanting those 12 games he lost to the collision with "He who shall not be named" in May, 40-30 may have been reachable.

I think you mean OBP of .300 (.310) for his last 45 games, his avg over those same 45 games is .202...

Joey Gallo stands up: .177/.301/.440 (.741 OPS) 21 HR, 40 RBI - 2023 slash line with Twins, TD basically ran him out of town, did not write articles suggesting he was one of the teams better hitters.

Quote attributed to Matt Wallner - 2025.....

No, it says more about how misleading certain metrics/new age stats can be, OPS being one of them.

The Twins are working on in-season adjustments to his pitches, it's more about the process than the results, especially at this point in this very long, very lost season.

Would have been nice if the team could have let us know they were just going to phone it in for the rest of season. Done watching this train wreck (a little later than others), might check scores and stats once in a while...

Lenient official scoring there....that looked like a PB to me, not a WP

Sounds like an injury of some sort

When your hands are cuffed by the Pohlad's you can only do so much...

Team back to trying to hit HRs instead of putting it in play and building the inning from there...